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The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John
This book's findings are rich and intriguing: In his death, Jesus--the chief architect in the production of space in the Christian realm--founds an alternative community that reorders space and creates a new reality for believers. This new community, which dwells in this radical new space, successfully resists the domination of oppressive regimes and mindsets, such as the Roman Empire. Suffering is transformed here. Many recent biblical studies have utilized various methodologies and historical-critical viewpoints, which have been helpful. However, drawing on theories of space and postcolonial approaches, Dr. Ajer breaks new ground in Johannine studies, a new terrain that will yield much fruit. The new understandings of "space" provide a key with which we may unlock more of the mysteries of the Fourth Gospel, as Ajer here demonstrates with powerful new discoveries and insights into John's Passion narrative.
The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John
This book's findings are rich and intriguing: In his death, Jesus--the chief architect in the production of space in the Christian realm--founds an alternative community that reorders space and creates a new reality for believers. This new community, which dwells in this radical new space, successfully resists the domination of oppressive regimes and mindsets, such as the Roman Empire. Suffering is transformed here. Many recent biblical studies have utilized various methodologies and historical-critical viewpoints, which have been helpful. However, drawing on theories of space and postcolonial approaches, Dr. Ajer breaks new ground in Johannine studies, a new terrain that will yield much fruit. The new understandings of "space" provide a key with which we may unlock more of the mysteries of the Fourth Gospel, as Ajer here demonstrates with powerful new discoveries and insights into John's Passion narrative.
Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Kings, as well as its reception in a variety of sources: Hebrew Scriptures (Hosea, Jeremiah, Psalms, Nehemiah), Second Temple Judaism (Animal Apocalypse, Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus), rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament (Acts, Paul, Hebrews, Revelation) and early Christianity (among Greek, Latin, and Syriac writers), as well as the Qur’an and Islamic literature. Expert contributors explore how each ancient author engaged with the calf traditions—whether explicitly, implicitly, or by clearly and consciously avoiding them—and elucidate how the story was used both negatively and positively for didactic, allegorical, polemical, and even apologetic purposes.
Priceless Father
“The Priceless Father” delves into the critical role parents play in a child’s upbringing and examines the profound impact of parental absence on their development. This book emphasizes the necessity of a stable family environment as the foundation for success in both career and community life. In today’s society, a significant number of children are raised by single mothers, highlighting the alarming statistic that at least one in three children comes from a broken home. While there are success stories of children raised by single parents, these narratives often overlook the immense commitment, love, and hard work involved. The book addresses the misconception that having both paren...
Jesus as Means and Locus of Worship in the Fourth Gospel
"The anti-Semitic Gospel"--this is how the book of John is frequently described and perceived, thanks to the pervasive presence of "the Jews" as Jesus' enemies who harass the Son of God to his death. But how accurate is this assessment? This book presents John as Jewish to its core, a record of first-century Judaism's searching for a place of worship after the traumatic destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE. As Judean religious authorities regrouped to redefine the faith of Israel, the Jesus sect within Judaism took a different course, proposing that worship was not to be found in Torah study or in the temples of Roman civic religion, but in the person of Jesus, Israel's Messiah. John...
The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an
This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity. Across the centuries, the interpretation of the Calf episode underwent major changes reflecting the varying cultural, religious, and ideological contexts in which various communities used the story to legitimate their own tradition, challenge the claims of others, and delineate the boundaries between self and other. The book contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of ...
The Path
Decision-making is a fundamental aspect of our daily lives, shaping our paths through the resolutions we reach after careful consideration. From the simplest choices to the most complex dilemmas, individuals continuously navigate the terrain of decision-making throughout their lifetimes. These decisions serve as compass points, guiding us toward the fulfillment of our goals and aspirations, whether they lead to positive outcomes or negative consequences. How many individuals truly take the time to thoroughly consider the available facts before diving into the decision-making process? Engaging in wise deliberation of facts prior to making a decision is crucial for ensuring that the resulting ...
Beauty and the Bible
These seven essays offer fresh perspectives on beauty’s role in revelation. Each essay features a hermeneutical approach informed by the contemporary study of aesthetics. Covering a series of texts in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, from Adam and Eve in the garden to Jesus on trial in the Fourth Gospel, the authors engage beauty from three overarching perspectives: modern philosophy, contextual criticism, and the postcritical return to beauty’s primary qualities. The three perspectives are not harmonized but rather explored concurrently to create a volume with intriguing methodological tensions. As this collection highlights beauty in the narratives of scripture, it opens readers to a largely unexplored dimension of the Bible. The contributors are Richard J. Bautch, Jo-Ann A. Brant, Mark Brummitt, David Penchansky, Antonio Portalatín, Jean-François Racine, and Peter Spitaler.
Narrative Mode and Theological Claim in Johannine Literature
Exegesis that bears fruit both for the academy and the church In this collection of essays and sermons on the Gospel of John and Revelation, friends, colleagues, and former students of Gail R. O’Day explore and extend the possibilities raised by her work in her groundbreaking study Revelation in the Fourth Gospel. The essays engage with both historical contextualization and literary analysis to identify the rhetorical features that ancient readers might have apprehended, while the sermons explore how the literary shape of the text can inform preaching through attention to the narrative modes of the text. Contributions from Yoshimi Azuma, Teresa Fry Brown, Patrick Gray, Lynn R. Huber, Susan E. Hylen, Karoline M. Lewis, Thomas G. Long, Veronice Miles, Vernon K. Robbins, Gilberto A. Ruiz, Ted A. Smith, and William M. Wright IV thematize the importance of narrative approaches and the diverse ways they can be employed.
An Ecology of Scriptures
Foreword - James Charlesworth -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The ecology of the fourth gospel: Bachelard's hermeneutics of home and Martyn's "Two-level drama." -- Chapter 2. Space matters for scripture and ecology matters for space: critical observations from John 4. -- Chapter 3. The undisputed Pauline Corpus and Gentile believers as the dwelling of God. -- Chapter 4. Identification with a marginal home: waters of judgment as the oppressed in the Parables of Enoch -- Chapter 5. Pit and prison, doors and dwelling: phenomenologies of the familiar in the Book of Revelation -- Chapter 6. "Real" visions of the ideal home: from ascetic dwellings to the Isle of the Blessed Ones in the history of the Rechabites -- Chapter 7. Augustine's Christological emphasis in De Trinitate : anaAffirmation of the human ecology. -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: the core function of "ecology" in scriptural production and interpretation.
